saveFile always return the download path on Android

[hioshih]

Describe the bug
Reopening report 1590.
As stated, saveFileDialog returns a file path pointing to the download folder regardless of the directory picked by the user.

Workaround
A workaround is to send the file data directly through bytes, but if you intended to check on the saved file afterwards you will fail to do so.
But then, this will become incompatible with Desktop, because on windows it does return the correct folder but doesn't save the bytes contents automatically.

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Desktop

How are you picking?

var fileName;
    String data = 'this is the\n text file content';
    final bytes = Uint8List.fromList(data.codeUnits);
    //picks a folder and filename to save
    fileName = await FilePicker.platform.saveFile(
      bytes: bytes,
    );
    //saves in the correct folder but enforces returning string as the download folder
    print('saveFile returned file: $fileName');

file saved in "/storage/emulated/0/myfolder/saved.txt"
output: "saveFile returned file:: /storage/emulated/0/Download/saved.txt"

Details to reproduce the issue
Brand new blank flutter project.

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 7 days with no activity.

[hioshih]

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[hioshih]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 7 days with no activity.

This bot is just closing all the issues aggressively (7 days) without solving anything and neither giving a chance for people to deal with them. 😢

[alexaungmyooo]

May I know how do you solve this issue?

[hioshih]

May I know how do you solve this issue?

I didn't.

It would either give an exception, or I could send the file contents using the bytes which is a shady undocumented parameter. But even so, it wouldn't return the correct folder where the file was saved.

Tried to look into the code but it seemed very complex with almost no comments, so I couldn't figure out yet why it stopped working, even though I'm almost sure it wasn't like this in the past. My guess is that some recent updates broke this feature on android.